Open Cycle Map

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OpenCyclelMap is part of the Open Street Map Project. Basically it's a wiki style editable map. Routes/features on the map are tagged, and OpenCycleMap extracts or highlights the cycling related features.

I've recently purchased a GPS and am in the process of mapping parts of Western Sydney, with an emphasis on the shared paths, cycle friendly roads and other cycling related infrastructure.I can see a huge future potential if we can get comprehensive and accurate cycling related maps of Sydney and surrounds; things like the New York based http://www.ridethecity.com could become a reality in Sydney...Maps showing cycling routes can be downloaded to GPS units...Maybe even auto routing (ie Selecting current location and destination, and the GPS works out the best cycling route between the two).....

Are you interested in becoming involved?Are you interested in discussing the best ways of tagging the cycling routes around Sydney?Have you already been involved in the project?If so, please join the group, and let the discussions begin!

Hi Stephan, Potlatch can be used (This is the editor that I use at present), although those that have mastered JOSM generally swear by it in preference to Potlatch.
Remember that only 'official' routes should be added into the OSM database.
I'm no expert, but am happy to discuss further.

Some councils have official on-road routes. RTA have 'official' routes. Some roads have sign-posted shoulders. It is a little ambiguous. If you'd like to mark routes that you use that aren't official, I think the best way to go is to plot it on one of the sites that use Open Cycle Map as a base layer.

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but the map hasn't updated for a few weeks now. (I have a number of edits in the inner-west and eastern suburbs that are waiting to appear.) It seems there are problems with the servers, which presumably has prevented the normal map rendering to run. (See Andy's comment on http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/potlatch-dev/2010-June/000...)

Ah the map has updated again! New cycle routes in Burwood, Strathfield, and some of the missing ones from Ashfield. It looks like rendering is in progress at the moment, so not all zoom levels are complete yet.